Chinantec - Kinship

Kin Groups and Descent.
Descent is strictly bilateral. There is no evidence of lineages or
other extended kinship groups, nor of kinship units owning specific
pieces of land.

Kinship Terminology.
Chinantec kinship fits George P. Murdock's general definition of
the Hawaiian classification, but in classifying the parental generation
and descending lineal generations it approaches Type b, European, in the
Lowie-Kirchhoff scheme.

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